Awesome Rust

A curated list of awesome Rust code and resources. Inspired by the other awesome lists.

Only projects that are stable and useful to users are added. Projects that do not compile with Rust-nightly for a longer time are moved to UNSTABLE.md.

• Awesome Rust
  • Code
    • Audio
    • Build system
    • Command-line argument parsing
    • Compression
    • Computation
    • Cryptography
    • Database
    • Date and time
    • Encoding
    • Game development
    • Games
    • GUI
    • Image processing
    • Mobile
    • Network programming
    • Platform specific
    • Template engine
    • Testing
    • Web programming
  • Resources

Code

Audio

• bjz/openal-rs — OpenAL 1.1 bindings
• JeremyLetang/ears — a simple library to play Sounds and Musics, on top of OpenAL and libsndfile
• JeremyLetang/rust-portaudio — PortAudio bindings
• musitdev/rust-portmidi — PortMidi bindings

Build system

• Cargo — the Rust package manager
• CMake
  • SiegeLord/RustCMake — an example project showing usage of CMake with Rust
• Make
  • PistonDevelopers/rust-empty — a Makefile to get started with Rust

Command-line argument parsing

• docopt/docopt.rs — a Rust implementation of DocOpt

Compression

• alexcrichton/bzip2-rs — libbz2 bindings
• alexcrichton/flate2-rs — miniz bindings
• alexcrichton/tar-rs — tar archive reading/writing in Rust
• lifthrasiir/rust-zip — read and write ZIP archives

Computation

• eholk/rust-opencl — OpenCL bindings
• thestinger/rust-gmp — libgmp bindings

Cryptography

• DaGenix/rust-crypto — cryptographic algorithms in Rust
• dnaq/sodiumoxide — libsodium bindings
• klutzy/suruga — a Rust implementation of TLS 1.2
• seb-m/common.rs — Common Rust crypto utilities
• sfackler/rust-openssl — OpenSSL bindings

Database

• NoSQL
  • RethinkDB
• SQL
  • MySql
    • blackbeam/rust-mysql-simple — a native MySql client
  • PostgreSql
    • sfackler/rust-postgres — a native PostgreSQL client
  • Sqlite
    • linuxfood/rustsqlite — Sqlite3 bindings

Date and time

• rust-lang/time —
• lifthrasiir/rust-chrono —

Encoding

• TyOverby/bincode — a binary encoder/decoder in Rust
• Cap'n Proto
  • dwrensha/capnproto-rust —
• Character Encoding
  • lifthrasiir/rust-encoding —
• CSV
  • BurntSushi/rust-csv —
• HTML
  • servo/html5ever — High-performance browser-grade HTML5 parser
• MsgPck
  • mneumann/rust-msgpack —
• ProtocolBuffers
  • stepancheg/rust-protobuf —
• TOML
  • alexcrichton/toml-rs —
• Tnetstring
  • erickt/rust-tnetstring —
• XML
  • Florob/RustyXML — an XML parser written in Rust
  • netvl/xml-rs — a streaming XML library
• YAML
  • kimhyunkang/libyaml-rust — libyaml bindings

Game development

• bbodi/rust-voxlap — Voxlap bindings
• PistonDevelopers/piston —
• SiegeLord/RustAllegro — Allegro 5 bindings

Games

• Coeuvre/rust-2048
• lifthrasiir/angolmois-rust — a minimalistic music video game which supports the BMS format

GUI

• Cocoa
  • mozilla-servo/rust-cocoa
• Gtk+
  • JeremyLetang/rgtk — Gtk+ bindings
• ncurses
  • jeaye/ncurses-rs —
• OpenGL
  • bjz/gl-rs
  • bjz/glfw-rs
  • servo/rust-glut
  • tomaka/glutin — Rust alternative to GLFW
• SDL
  • AngryLawyer/rust-sdl2 — SDL2 bindings
  • brson/rust-sdl — SDL1 bindings
• SFML
  • jeremyletang/rust-sfml — SFML bindings
• Termbox
  • gchp/rustbox — a Rust implementation of termbox
• wxWidgets

Image processing

• PistonDevelopers/image — Basic imaging processing functions and methods for converting to and from image formats

Mobile

• tomaka/android-rs-glue — glue between Rust and Android
• vhbit/ObjCrust — using Rust to create an iOS static library

Network programming

• Low level
  • libpnet/libpnet — Cross-platform, low level networking
• NanoMsg
  • thehydroimpulse/nanomsg.rs — a modern messaging library that is the successor to ZeroMQ
• SSH
  • alexcrichton/ssh2-rs — libssh2 bindings
• Stomp
  • zslayton/stomp-rs — STOMP 1.2 client implementation in Rust
• ZeroMQ

Platform specific

• Linux
  • carllerche/nix-rust — Linux API bindings

Template engine

• Mustache
  • rustache/rustache —

Testing

• BurntSushi/quickcheck — a Rust implementation of QuickCheck
• farcaller/shiny — a fancy syntax similar to ruby's rspec or Objective-C's kiwi

Web programming

See also http://arewewebyet.com/

• Core
  • chris-morgan/rust-http — will be replaced by Teepee
  • hyperium/hyper — an HTTP implementation
• Client
  • carllerche/curl-rust — libcurl bindings
  • vhbit/curl-rs — libcurl bindings
• Server
  • Iron — a middleware-based server framework
  • Nickel — inspired by Express
  • Ogeon/rustful — a RESTful web framework for Rust
  • Rustless — a REST-like API micro-framework inspired by Grape and Hyper

Resources

• Rust by Example
• Rust CI — a Travis CI dashboard for Rust projects
• Rust Guidelines